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Major League Baseball, making its public-facing re-entry from the Covid-19 pandemic with its First-Year Player Draft this week, continued the sports industry’s run of strong ratings increases among a c…
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The 2020 Major League Baseball Draft will be held remotely on June 10-11 and carried on multiple networks for the first time, it has been announced
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Major League Baseball has expanded its international rights deal with ESPN to cover more territories in Europe and Africa
Multi-sport

Major sports federations have urged the US government to keep Saudi Arabia on its main list of countries that do not adequately protect intellectual property as a result of the widespread piracy of content…
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ESPN has reset its announcer team for its flagship Major League Baseball broadcast property, Sunday Night Baseball, going with a two-man booth
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In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of Major League Baseball
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In the latest interactive monthly data report, SportBusiness Media analyses the media-rights landscape of Major League Baseball
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Major League Baseball and Fox Sports narrowly avoided setting a record for the least-watched World Series opener ever on US television
Multi-sport

OTT streaming service DAZN has unseated Major League Baseball as the producer of the world’s top revenue-generating sports app, according to a new report.
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Major League Baseball this season posted a series of gains in linear and digital television consumption, contrasting with the sport’s ongoing attendance decline.
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League to distribute live streamed game into quartet of prominent international baseball markets

MLB team to gain additional local media rights fees after nearly eight-year dispute
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NY judge uncertain whether he can overturn a MLB arbitration ruling in favor of Washington Nationals
Multi-sport

As TikTok has grown into one of the world's most popular social-media apps during the past year, the short-form video-sharing platform has become an important tool for sports rights-holders to expand and engage their fanbases. 
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Baltimore Orioles-controlled RSN again claims league was improperly partial in its long-running media dispute with the Washington Nationals
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A Major League Baseball arbitration committee has ruled the Washington Nationals are due nearly $100 million (US) in additional rights fees from the Baltimore Orioles in the latest salvo in their long-running…
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UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has renewed its deal for Major League Baseball rights until the end of  2021, while public-service broadcaster the BBC has acquired rights to MLB's upcoming London …
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Major League Baseball struck a new partnership on Tuesday with YouTube incorporating live streaming rights to 13 games from the second half of the 2019 regular season